Trudeau’s Chinese Trade Headache Worsens With Meat-Export Ban
- Canadian shipments to Asian giant rose tenfold in past decade
- Beijing’s latest move follows canola restrictions, detentions
Trudeau reviews a Chinese honor guard on a trip to Beijing in December 2017.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s once-lofty ambitions for closer Canadian trade ties with China are melting away.
China’s ban this week on meat imports adds to an already long list of irritants between the two countries that cast serious doubt on whether Canada will ever be able to use the Asian giant as the main platform from which to reduce its reliance on the U.S. market. Roughly three quarters of Canadian shipments abroad currently end up across the southern border.